Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edgar Howard of Nebraska-long hair à la W. J. B. A heavy face also resembling the Commoner's. A high whiny voice, pleading at times. His favorite sport is asking "innocent questions" which convulse the House with laughter, for he has wit. He calls himself "a free Democrat." At home he is a newspaper publisher...
...enticing side issue, let me state that I never have been, and am not now, an admirer of the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition is a live topic of the day and is fair subject for ridicule, as are all such matters. Some may feel that, as an inspiration of wit it is somewhat worn, but, after all, an Ivy Orator has a hard time, so we will not question his seeking humor in prohibition...
...most sacred treasures of American literature. We all know that it was delivered upon a most solemn occasion and was written to dedicate a National Cemetery for those who gave all on that great battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present in the Stadium that afternoon were grieved to hear a Harvard man make such a blunder. We were delighted that the elements reduced his audience to a minimum...
...HIGH ROAD-British wit and Edna Best prettily enmeshed in a tragedy of love among the upper classes (TIME, 'Sept...
...view of the wit and alert psychological analysis dissipated by Boston newspaper columnists on the falling off in attendance at football mass meetings at Harvard, this kindred slump among the Elis must be regarded as a direct refutation of any explaining cause except that of a saner adjustment of athletic interest in both colleges. It is regrettable that Yale has encroached upon the portion of distaste for crowd hysteria lately and solely possessed by the ten thousand men. But it has done so and what barbs are thrown in the future must be received upon the joined bucklers...